Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Significantly, no one has lodged a complaint against Sausalito police in two years. Their hostilities under control, the men are also freer to focus on serious crimes-residential burglaries and auto thefts have been cut in half. In similar sessions with local citizens, Houston cops are trying hard to understand minority-group problems...
...Stedelijk Museum was aglow with 90 De Kooning oils, and idolizing crowds trailed him everywhere. The only problem was that he had forgotten his mother tongue. After U.S. Ambassador William Tyler addressed the opening-night crowd at the Stedelijk in impeccable Dutch, De Kooning admitted: "I could not understand one word of what the ambassador said, but I thanked him for his kind words...
...NONE of the four cards understand Jeu Total. They play their own game, they conspire to create people. The scene in the hospital when Eric leaves Elizabeth for Emilie, the shortcake scene between Mark and Elizabeth, the park scene between Eric and Emilie--good moments. Something is felt, something is quietly shown. Put the witch out of mind to appreciate Tom Jones, Howard Cutler, Maeve Kinkead, Mary Smith. They make characters into beings...
Someone asks Eric why he wants to be like Howard Hawks. His answer: Hawks saw the world as increasingly dark and complicated and somehow emasculating, and considered self-respect the key to a life style we do not understand anymore. Also something about the way Hawks employs objects in the background...
Perhaps part of the difference can be attributed to the sport itself. It seems hard to understand why anyone would want to go out and just run. Even runners themselves have difficulty explaining why they do it. One emphasizes the challenge of pure competition; another talks of the esthetic appeal of running on a beach alone; a third mentions the satisfaction of physical fatigue...